2010 in summary was pretty eventful. These are my highlights and achievements.
BBBlood Releases - 2010
- Lazar House (Sound Holes).
- Rust (TDS).
- Split with Duncan Harrison (No label).
Compilation Appearances
Last year I submitted a tracks for the following compilations
- V/A - Resuming Treatment CDr (Fragment Factory)
- IEAAP volume 1 (Hal McGee)
- V/A - Transient Constellations All-dayer compilation CDr (Transient Constellations)
BBBlood Live - 2010
- 4th January - @ The Miller - Miles Of Smiles - BBBlood / Shighai/ Jahillyah / Slushy Guts / Angela Valid.
- 17th June - @ The Others - Transient Constellations - BBBlood / Team Brick / Skat Injector.
- 10th July - @ The Old Blue Last - Noise,Noise,Noise - UK noise conference 2.
- 19th September @ Incubate 2010 festival in Tilburg. w/ Horracio Pollard, Cheapmachines, Pokemachine, Moon Unit, Basshaters + loads more.
- 25th September @ GELUIDSOVERLAST,VLAS VEGAS and DE KREUN PRESENT NOISEFEST 2 w/ Cheapmachines, Sewer Election, Naked On The Vague, Ättestupa, Remork + more.
- 16th October @ The Windmill - Transient Constellations All-Dayer w/ Cheapmachines, Polutive Static, The Digitariat, Gland, DeepKiss 720, Skat Injector etc...
- 9th December @ The Others - ILL FM - BBBlood, Dieter Muh, Cheapmachines and Acqua Dentata.
- 16th December @ The Others - Transient Constellations - Oscillating Innards, BBBlood, Rovar17 and Duncan Harrison.
The real highlights was playing NoiseFest2 in Kortrijk (a great place I really want to visit again), meeting all the great Belgians and drinking all their finest beer / getting toasted with Phil, Vicky Kapoor and the locals, Incubate 2010 for the incredible experience and finally playing on the same line ups as musicians such as Cheapmachines, Sewer Election, Oscillating Innards, Alfarmania and Dieter Muh.
Thanks to everyone who fixed up these shows. I'm open to offers for future gigs as nothing is currently planned till mid 2011.
Records 2010
There's been countless great noise and related records released this year, these stood out for me. This list probably reads a lot like others lists but here goes...
- The Rita - Predators 7" (Second Layer Records)
- Custodian - Toil and Waste (Syzmic Records)
- Darksmith - Total Vacuum (Hanson)
- Keranen - Bats In The Attic (Pica Disk)
- T.E.F. - Consequences in Conversation (DaDa Drumming)
- Jason Crumer -Let There Be Crumer / Self Pity Fuck (No Rent Records)
- Black Air - Paris (Urashima)
- Sewer Election - Vidöppna Sår (PAN)
- Kazuma Kubota - A Sense of Loss + 1 (Pitchphase)
- Pedestrian Deposit - East Fork/North Fork (Monorail Trespassing)
- The Haters / Hal Hutchinson c90 (And possibly Hal Hutchinson 'A Taste of Iron' too on Freak Animal) (Der Bunker)
- Pain Jerk - The Worst Form Of Musick (AMP)
- Sewer Election - Bristning (Release The Bats Records)
- Lasse Marhaug - The Quiet North (Second Layer Records)
- Francisco Meirino & Dave Phillips - We Are None Of Us (Misanthropic Agenda)
- Macronympha / Kakerlak split (DaDa Drumming)
- Dem Hunger - Caveman Smack (Leaving Records)
- Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Air Supply (Erstwhile Records)
Also mention goes to As Loud As Possible magazine. I'm still only half way through reading it but it's almost like when you're a kid and receive a copy of the Beano annual. Great read, inspirational and very insightful.
Live 2010
Favourite Shows of 2010
- LAFMS - The Lowest Form of Music Weekend (London, Beconsfield) - Highlights for me - Hijokiadan, Incapacitants, John Duncan, Spoils & Relics w/ Mark Durgan, Raionbashi, Dinosuars With Horns. A unforgettable weekend, so many great acts, great people, records to buy.
- The Rita (London, The Grosvenor), with excellent sets from Filthy Turd, Voltiguers and Vomir this was a great night. Sam Mckinlay's set was uncompromising walls of static suffocation and decay really knocked me for six and I felt pretty high afterwards.
- Oscillating Innards (London, The Others) For a long time I've wanted to see OxIx play after hearing reviews from friends who have been fortunate enough to see Gordon play. After missing out last time I finally got to see OxIx play and even support that night. A real jaw dropping performance and intense set.
- Skat Injector (London, The Windmill) The Transient Constellations all day event was fun from what I can remember, but out of all the sets I really enjoyed Skat Injector's set that night. One one hand it was abrasive grind core with incredible screamed vocals from Zara Skumshot and on the other hand it very tongue and cheek and the crowd were extremely up for going crazy.
- NoiseFest 2 (Kortrijk, Belgium) I mentioned this earlier in this blog post but I really enjoyed all the sets I caught that day - no complaints + good beer.
